TOPEKA (KSNT) -- Mission Creek Camp, a camp in Topeka for people with all abilities, is getting ready to reopen this summer. From donkeys to horses and open space, the Mission Creek Camp is ready to welcome campers this year. Ken and Cathy Scroggs own and operate the facility. They bought the camp back in [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Shawnee County Health Department announced its new director Thursday. Teresa Fisher is taking over the position after former director Linda Ochs retired at the end of 2020. Fisher is a registered nurse and has worked for the department in various roles since 2005. She said she's looking forward to finding a [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has released its latest amended travel advisories as the U.S. enters what some think may be the final months of the pandemic. For those who are fully vaccinated (meaning it has been greater than two weeks since they completed their vaccinations) they are not required [...]
How would you like to turn your naps into a profession for 30 days? Eachnight.com is offering $1,500 to five people interested in participating in a study on the pros and cons of napping.
A site is auctioning off a ticket stub and piece of the floor from the arena where Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single NBA game.
OVERLAND PARK (AP) — A Kansas City-area high school has announced its new mascot as the Bison after deciding earlier this year to drop its culturally and racially insensitive former mascot, the Indians. The Kansas City Star reports that Shawnee Mission North High School announced the new mascot this week. Students, administrators and staff spent [...]
WICHITA (AP) — A Sedgwick County Sheriff's deputy who died in the line of duty in 1927 will have a headstone installed on his grave this weekend. The sheriff's office will dedicate the tombstone for Deputy Benjamin Franklin Hill on Sunday at Highland Cemetery. Hill was killed on Aug. 16, 1927, during an attempted jailbreak [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Kansas House has moved forward with a bill that would legalize medical marijuana in Kansas, voting 79 to 42 Thursday. "What we did today is we helped people, we helped a majority of people, we helped a lot of people that need this," Olathe Representative Adam Thomas said. "I believe that [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The medical marijuana bill was at the forefront of Kansas lawmakers’ debate Thursday morning at 10 a.m. Earlier this week, a House committee approved the measure to send it to the full House, a first in Kansas. The bill known as House Substitute for SB158 cleared the House Committee on Federal and State Affairs [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The United State Geological Society is reporting a 3.8 magnitude earthquake just south of Formoso, Kansas this morning. Formoso, with a population of 93, is located in Jewell County just south of the Kansas-Nebraska line. An earthquake of 3.8 magnitude can typically be felt as far as 60 miles from its epicenter.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday will announce the next president of Wichita State University
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Home renting app Airbnb has donated $15,000 to the Choose Topeka program that pays people to move to the capital city, the Greater Topeka Partnership announced Thursday. Airbnb's cash injection signals a national partnership with the Choose Topeka program after it was extended into 2021. The funds are intended to give potential [...]
EMPORIA (KSNT) - The David Traylor Zoo of Emporia is getting ready to unveil a new entrance and exhibit next month. This is part of the first phase of a $4.3 million renovation project. Crews are finishing up stonework on the new entrance to the zoo. A new sign and iron gate will be installed [...]
VIDEO FROM RICHMOND POLICE DEPARTMENT HOUSTON (KSNT) A Texas officer from Richmond, Texas responding to an 18-wheeler stuck on the tracks captured the moment the train barreled through a tractor trailer. The train appeared to slice the trailer in two with no problem. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Richmond Police are now investigating the train [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Rumors of fights and drugs are circulating at Seaman Middle School however Principal Joshua Snyder said the school is not aware of specific use of drugs. Snyder told families the school is "dedicated to maintaining a strong partnership with parents in our effort to provide the very best education for students." According [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City couple was inside their home when multiple armed men broke down their back door, rushed into their house and forced the wife to get into a car headed to Kansas. The couple called it kidnapping, but the men said they were enforcing the law. “That’s vigilante justice there,” [...]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The overall index score this week has increased 4 points from 1 to 5. This keeps Shawnee County in the Moderate index this week. Key takeaways from this week’s scorecard include the following: Number of weekly cases increased 46.9% to 94 cases total for this reporting period Percentage of positive tests saw [...]
Fresh out of college at 22 years old, Donna Lee found her home away from home at McLean Elementary in Wichita.
The National Air and Space Museum will take visitors to a galaxy far, far away starting next year.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Topeka Fire Department responding to an upstairs apartment fire Thursday morning found heavy smoke coming from a second floor apartment. Shortly after 5:30 a.m. firefighters responded to 1524 North Kansas. While all occupants were able to get out, one resident had to be treated for smoke inhalation. North Kansas was closed [...]
What We're Tracking: Sunshine again Thursday Warmer by the weekend Rounds of storms this weekend, as well We'll start off your Thursday with clear skies and temperatures near more seasonable levels in the upper 40s and lower 50s. We'll see sunshine for most of the day and that should send temperatures climbing into the 60s. [...]
JUNCTION CITY (KSNT) - Several parents are furious over a Junction City daycare being shut down by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment; but not just with daycare, with the state as well. "My heart dropped," Cris Ellis said. Ellis and his wife Kelsey took a sigh of relief Wednesday after hearing the news [...]
WICHITA (KSNT) - President Donald Trump's former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo cleared the air Wednesday in an exclusive interview with KSNT News on if he intended to run for president. It took four words: "No, not at all." Widespread speculation came from "Champion American Values," a new political action committee backing [...]
LAWRENCE (KSNT) - Athletes have an array of mental health resources, but what about after they hang up the cleats? "The thoughts of suicide started to play a factor in my brain," Tony Sands, KU running back from 1988-1991, said. It’s an uncomfortable conversation, but what do athletes do when there's no adrenaline rush from [...]
The Johnson County Medical Examiner takes time to debunk an urban legend about car crashes and COVID that's circulating around the county
